Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman takes questions from the media following the arraignment of Marcos Sarinana Gurrola in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Gurrola faces 66 felony counts for firing shots in the Fashion Island shopping center parking lot in Newport Beach on Saturday.

Video screens show Marcos Sarinana Gurrola as he talks to Deputy Public Defender Fernando Valle during his arraignment in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Gurrola faces 66 felony counts for firing shots in the Fashion Island shopping center parking lot in Newport Beach on Saturday.

Video screens show Commissioner Craig Arthur, left, as he listens to attorneys at the arraignment of Marcos Sarinana Gurrola in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Gurrola faces 66 felony counts for firing shots in the Fashion Island shopping center parking lot in Newport Beach on Saturday. Beside Gurrola is Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman.

Video screens show Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman, right, address the court during the arraignment of Marcos Sarinana Gurrola in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Gurrola faces 66 felony counts for firing shots in the Fashion Island shopping center parking lot in Newport Beach on Saturday. Gurrola's attorney, Deputy Public Defender Fernando Valle , is at left.

Video screens show Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman, right, as he listens to Deputy Public Defender Fernando Valle during the arraignment of Marcos Sarinana Gurrola in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Gurrola faces 66 felony counts for firing shots in the Fashion Island shopping center parking lot in Fashion Island on Saturday.

A Newport Beach police crime scene investigator checks evidence at the scene after shots were fired on the east side of Macy's parking lot in the Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach late Saturday afternoon.

Orange County Sheriff's Department and Newport Beach police conduct an investigation at Fashion Island on Saturday afternoon after witnesses reported shots being fired in one of the parking structures outside Macy's.

Newport Beach police officers on scene of shots fired incident on the east side of Macy's parking lot in Fashion Island Shopping Center in Newport Beach late last Saturday afternoon.

Video screens show Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman, right, address the court during the arraignment of Marcos Sarinana Gurrola in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Gurrola faces 66 felony counts for firing shots in the Fashion Island shopping center parking lot in Newport Beach on Saturday. Gurrola's attorney, Deputy Public Defender Fernando Valle , is at left.

SANTA ANA – A Garden Grove man charged with firing dozens of shots from a semiautomatic handgun in the parking lot of the Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach was ordered held without bail Tuesday as a danger to others.

Orange County Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman argued for no bail for Marcos Sarinana Gurrola, 42, during a brief court appearance, saying that Gurrola has confessed to 10 other shooting incidents in Orange County since April.

“He’s an angry person,” Mestman said after Gurrola’s arraignment in the courtroom at the Orange County Jail. “He feels good when he fires a gun.”

Superior Court Commissioner Craig Arthur said Mestman presented “clear and convincing evidence” that Gurrola presents a risk of harm to others and ordered that he be held without bail pending his continued arraignment Jan. 11.

Gurrola is charged with 54 counts of discharging a gun in public and two counts of assault in injuries suffered by a mother and her 4-year-old daughter when they were knocked to the ground Saturday in the panic as shoppers tried to get away from the gunfire.

The unemployed security guard was also charged with 10 felony counts for firing a gun in public in a similar incident at the shopping center in November 2011.

Mestman added that police agencies around Orange County, including Garden Grove, Anaheim and Irvine, are investigating Gurrola’s admissions to 10 other shootings. There is no evidence that anyone was shot during the prior incidents, Mestman said.

If convicted on all counts he is now charged with, Gurrola faces a maximum sentence of 115 years in prison. He appeared solemn during Tuesday’s court appearance, standing by himself in a mustard-colored jail uniform behind chain-link fencing.

Authorities said Gurrola drove his white Honda Civic into the Macy’s parking lot about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, as televisions and newspapers around the country were reporting on the tragic events that occurred Friday in Connecticut, where 26 children and adults were killed in a shooting rampage.

Newport Beach police reported Gurrola got out of his car, raised a Glock .40-caliber handgun and started shooting toward Macy’s. No one was injured by the bullets during the 54-shot barrage, police said, and none of the shots struck the building. But as word spread of shots fired in the parking lot, shoppers panicked and ran, knocking a mother and her daughter to the ground, police said.

At the time of Gurrola’s arrest, police recovered ammunition for different weapons including .44-caliber, .380-caliber and .38-caliber, but no other weapons, prosecutors said.

Newport Beach police detectives later linked Gurrola to a previous incident on Nov. 16, 2011, when someone fired 10 rounds in a parking lot at Fashion Island, prosecutors said. That shooting was reported to police, but no suspects were detained or identified at the time, prosecutors said.

In an affidavit filed in court in support of the prosecution motion to hold Gurrola without bail, Newport Beach Detective G. Fitzgerald wrote that Gurrola told him he shot his weapon because he felt angry but insisted that he did not shoot at anyone in particular.

“He claimed when he fired his gun, it made him feel better,” Fitzgerald said.

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